• Breaking Bad reportedly costs $3 million per episode to produce, higher than the average cost for a basic cable program.
• The production would eventually build a 300-foot-long (91 m) boardwalk in an empty lot in Brooklyn, New York at the cost of five million dollars.[15] Despite a reported budget of up to $50 million,[16] the pilot's final budget came in at $18 million.
• Mad Men, According to a 2011 Miller Tabak + Company estimate published in Barrons, Lions Gate Entertainment receives an estimated $2.71 million from AMC for each episode, a little less than the $2.84 million each episode costs to produce.
• "I en sådan framgångsrik serie som "Solsidan" handlar det säkert om totalt tio miljoner kronor som kommer in under en säsong". säger Henrik Ström.[15]

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